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Emerging trends

Guidance on gender-smart investing and gender-smart approaches to build value for businesses

Environmental shifts
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Environmental shifts

In this Section:
  • Climate change and natural disasters
  • Resource scarcity
  • Pandemics
  • Circular economy and waste
  • Low-carbon economy transition
Tech transformation
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Tech transformation

In this Section:
  • Digital IDs
  • Biological breakthroughs
  • Advanced materials
  • Intelligence of everything
  • Location of things
Industrial uncertainties
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Industrial uncertainties

In this Section:
  • Multi-polar power
  • Shifting financial systems
  • Future of work
  • Globalisation 4.0 & neo-tribalism
  • Ethical ecosystems
Disruptive demographics
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Disruptive demographics

In this Section:
  • Migration
  • Ethnic, religious and cultural shifts
  • Urbanisation and smart cities
  • Inequality
  • Youth bulges, cybrids and ageing economies


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